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ever, to a reliable source. President Davis and the Southwestern Publishing House. The following acknowledgment (says the Tennessee Baptist) by President Davis of a package of books, consisting of a copy of the first Pocket Bible and Testament published in the Southern Confederacy, also the new Confederate series of School books, is characteristic of the man and must be gratifying in the authors of the series — the one a Georgian, and the other from Mississippi: Richmond, Dec. 26, 1861. Dear Sir: Rec. J. R, Graces Nashville, Tenn.-- I have received with great pleasure your letter of the 18th inst. with the Holy Bible, Testament, and school books accompanying it. The Bible is a beautiful specimen of Southern workmanship, and if I live to be inaugurated the first President of the Confederacy on the 22d of February next my lips shall press the sacred volume which your kindness has bestowed upon me. I have no time to examine the school books, but I doubt not